❓ A Member of Parliament questions the Health portfolio regarding the removal of mobile dental services from Kalannie Primary School and other schools, seeking clarification on criteria, access, and impact on students.
AnsweredQoN 5707Legislative Assembly
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I refer to Question on Notice No. 5445, regarding mobile dental health clinic services no longer available at Kalannie Primary School, and I ask: (a) What is the minimum number of students necessary for a school to retain a mobile dental health clinic: (i) What was the process to arrive at this minimum number; (b) How will Kalannie Primary School students access this service, as they may reside 100 kilometres from the Dalwallinu service, and who will bear the cost; (c) How will Kalannie Primary School manage the disruption to class, noting that there will be appointments with the mobile dental service for individual siblings for assessment and then treatment; (d) Which other schools in Moore are losing the mobile dental health clinic service; and (e) What other schools across the state lost the services of an onsite visit by the mobile dental health clinic: (i) Last year; (ii) This year; and (iii) Expected to lose the service next year?
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Answered
11 February 2020
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
9 days
I am advised:
(a) There is no set minimum number. Retention of a mobile dental health clinic depends on multiple factors such as:
(i)
(b) Kalannie Primary School students can access this service when the Mobile DTC is located at the Dalwallinu District High School. The cost of transporting students to DTCs is the responsibility of parent/carers.
(c) Parent/carers are responsible for communicating the requirement to remove their child from class with the school.
(d) Nil.
(e)(i) Waroona District High School, Augusta Primary School, Cowaramup Primary School.
(ii) Nil.
(iii) Hollywood Primary School.
(a) There is no set minimum number. Retention of a mobile dental health clinic depends on multiple factors such as:
(i)
(b) Kalannie Primary School students can access this service when the Mobile DTC is located at the Dalwallinu District High School. The cost of transporting students to DTCs is the responsibility of parent/carers.
(c) Parent/carers are responsible for communicating the requirement to remove their child from class with the school.
(d) Nil.
(e)(i) Waroona District High School, Augusta Primary School, Cowaramup Primary School.
(ii) Nil.
(iii) Hollywood Primary School.
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